Bill Text: NY A08241 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires all municipalities to update all applicable forms and data systems to include a gender "x" option.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08241 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08241-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8241--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY November 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK, LEVENBERG, SEAWRIGHT, EPSTEIN, GONZA- LEZ-ROJAS, GLICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to requiring all muni- cipalities to update all applicable forms and data systems to include a gender "x" option The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section 2 79-r to read as follows: 3 § 79-r. Collection of gender or sex designation information by munici- 4 palities. 1. All New York state municipalities that collect demographic 5 information about a person's gender or sex shall make available to the 6 person at the point of data collection an option to mark their gender or 7 sex as "x". 8 2. All municipalities shall update any applicable physical and online 9 forms or data systems in the regular course of business including, but 10 not limited to: 11 (a) updating printed forms to include the gender "x" option when such 12 forms are being reordered; 13 (b) updating websites, webpages, public facing online internet 14 services to include the gender "x" option when such websites, webpages 15 and public facing online internet services are being updated; and 16 (c) updating any links or other forms of sharing when websites, 17 webpages or other public facing online internet services are being 18 updated to reflect forms that have the gender "x" option. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13246-07-4